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Plenocaris
Temporal range: Chengjiang–Burgess shale
Plate from Walcott, 1912
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Mandibulata
Order: Hymenocarina
Family: Waptiidae
Genus: Plenocaris
Whittington 1974
Species:
P. plena
Binomial name
Plenocaris plena
Hou & Bergström 1997

Plenocaris plena is a crustacean-like arthropod with a bivalved carapace, and is known from the Burgess shale[1] and Chengjiang.[2] Template:Gpb abundance

It probably lacked pleopods, but had uropods.[3]

References

  1. ^ Whittington, Harry B. (1974), "Yohoia Walcott and Plenocaris n. Gen., arthropods from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia", Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin: 1–21
  2. ^ Hou, Xian-Guang; Bergström, J. (1997), "Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China", Fossils & Strata, 45, Scandinavian University Press: 116
  3. ^ Williamson, D. I.; Rice, A. L. (1996). "Larval Evolution in the Crustacea". Crustaceana. 69 (3): 267–287. doi:10.1163/156854096X00871.

Further reading

Briggs, D.E.G. (1983), Affinities and early evolution of the Crustacea: the evidence of the Cambrian fossils